Quotes about "Politics & Government"

While the surfeit of cheap calories that the U.S. food system has produced since the late 1970s may have taken food prices off the political agenda, this has come at a steep cost to public health. ”

It's no accident that Julia Child appeared on public television - or educational television, as it used to be called. On a commercial network, a program that actually inspired viewers to get off the couch and spend an hour cooking a meal would be a commercial disaster, for it would mean they were turning off the television to do something else. ”

The things journalists should pay attention to are the issues the political leadership agrees on, rather than to their supposed antagonisms. ”

The monastery of Christ in the Desert had its resident hermit, Brother Xavier, chosen after years of devotion and service, a monk so trusted and experienced that he qualified by Benedictine standards to be sent to the front lines in the fight against the devil. ”

I have been unusually blessed in that I've been allowed to pursue two strands of a career that both delight me and seem to please the public. ”

I have never run a public company. I spent my entire life working for a private company. ”

I went through a period when I did military roles and played basically someone who was unfit for military service. ”

You know, public service is serious enough on its own, and what I've found is if you take yourself take yourself too seriously in this business, you'll lose sight of what it is that you're trying to get done. So I mean I've tried to have the proper mix of being a serious public servant, but also still being a regular guy. ”

I believe in the critical importance of participating in the political system - from voting to standing for election. It's both rewarding and necessary that men and women of good will and clear thinking engage in honest, open debate. ”

Our political institutions work remarkably well. They are designed to clang against each other. The noise is democracy at work. ”